https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/124577 2026-04-14T05:06:32Z 2026-04-14T05:06:32Z Chaney, Edward Vassallo, Peter https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/124852 2024-07-24T10:45:21Z 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Journal of Anglo-Italian Studies : volume 2 Authors: Chaney, Edward; Vassallo, Peter Abstract: Table of Contents:; - Love, pity and reason in the Troilus Chaucer's debt to Dante: A. M. Schembri; - Tamburlaine and the Mad Priest of the Sun: David Farley-Hills; - The Anti-Dukes of Northumberland: Hugh Trevor-Roper; - Milton, Salvator Rosa, and Baroque representations of battle: Michael Hollington; - From Arlecchino to Harlequin: Italian actors on the English stage: Vicki Ann Cremona; - Proud to catch cold at a Venetian door: Pope and Palladianism: Malcom Kelsall; - The accomplished Maria Cosway: Anglo-Italian artist, musician, salon hostess and educationalist (1759-1838): Stephen Lloyd; - Wyndham versus Bonaparte: the Tuscan crisis of 1796-97: William Collier; - Coleridge's translations of Gabriello Chiabrera: Arnold Cassola; - Viaggiatori Pugliesi in Inghilterra: Federica Troisi; - Croce, Praz e l'Anglistica Italiana: Vittoria Gabrieli

1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Schembri, A. M. https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/124850 2024-07-24T10:42:59Z 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Love, pity and reason in the Troilus Chaucer's debt to Dante Authors: Schembri, A. M. Abstract: With the Book of the Duchess Chaucer establishes himself as the poet of Courtly Love at the court of Edward. In the Book Chaucer does not consider any other kind of love. Courtly Love is the pure love, the noble love, and perfectly attuned to the 'lawe of kinde' (BD 56). This certainly makes his ambivalent attitude to Courtly Love in his succeeding works, the House of Fame, The Parlement of Fowles, The Knights' Tale, and the Troilus and Criseyde, the more surprising. His reputation made with the Book, a work in no way inferior to any of his French contemporaries, and in many respects richer and fresher, Chaucer goes to Italy, and, he comes face to face with a more complex and variegated vision of love. Petrarch was for ever struggling to define love, and his 'S'amor none, che dunque e quel ch'i sento' (In Vita 165) is symptomatic of his inconclusiveness. Chaucer immediately spotted this sonnet for his Canticus Troili. For Petrarch, love is a passion which swells and consumes itself in 'rethorike sweete' (Ck'sT 32), and Laura remains a distant goddess. For his friend Boccaccio, love is a yearning which finds satisfaction only in the triumph of the flesh. In Dante's Convivio alone, Chaucer discovers the maturest and most congenial treatise on love of the time. The contrasting features of the Italian scene bring home to Chaucer the torpor of French literature which still sought inspiration and nourishment from the Roman de la Rose, the book which until then had largely determined his own cultural luggage as well as that of his French models.

1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Farley-Hills, David https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/124657 2024-07-16T10:28:38Z 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Tamburlaine and the mad priest of the sun Authors: Farley-Hills, David Abstract: The possible influence of Giordano Bruno on Christopher Marlowe has for long been a subject of speculation. In Marlowe, Tamburlaine, and Magic J.R. Howe argued that Marlowe had been influenced by Bruno in depicting Tamburlaine as a 'magus' figure, while more recently Hilary Gatti has argued for signs of Bruno's influence in Faustus. The most recent suggestions come from Charles Nicholl's account of Marlowe's murder, where new evidence is presented linking the Italian and the Englishman. Quoting this well-known passage from Robert Greene's Perimedes the Blacksmith, where Green refers to 'that atheist Tamburlan', Nicholl argues that, in addition to references to Marlowe, the passage contains a reference to Bruno: I . . . had it in derision, for that I could not make my verses jet upon the stage in tragicall buskins, everie worde filling the mouth like the farburden of Bo-Bell, daring God out of heaven with that Atheist Tamburlan, or blaspheming with the mad preest of the sonne: but let me rather openly pocket up the Asse at Diogenes hand: then wantonlye set out such impious instances of intolerable poetrie: such mad and scoffing poets, that have propheticall spirits, as bred of Merlin's race; if there be anye in England that set the end of scollarisme in an English blanck verse, I thinke either it is the humor of a novice that tickles them with selfe-love, or to much frequenting the hot house ... hath swet out all the greatest part of their wits ...

1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Trevor-Roper, Hugh https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/124656 2024-07-16T10:24:44Z 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The anti-dukes of Northumberland Authors: Trevor-Roper, Hugh Abstract: When I was a small child, my formal education began with the hymn 'All Things Bright and Beautiful', which I was made to learn by heart; and when I was taken for walks in the Park or the Pastures, and passed the Barbican gate, the image of an immutable, divinely ordered society, as presented by that hymn - the rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate (Narrowgate, I assumed) - was vividly impressed on my mind. What a symbol of ancient continuity was here! North Northumberland seemed a wonderfully stable world, and here was the guarantee of its immemorial stability. However, afterwards, when I came to study history, I had to revise this view. History, I then found, is continuous only in flux; one has to fight even to stand still. And this general rule applies even in Northumberland, even here.

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